Mücke (Hessen)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Vogelsbergkreis
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	86.23 km 2
Residents:	9400 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	35325
Primaries :	06400, 06401 (Atzenhain), 06634 (Bernsfeld), 06645 (Höckersdorf)
License plate :	VB
Community key :	06 5 35 013
Address of the municipal administration:	Im Herrnhain 2 35325 Mücke
Website :	www.gemeinde-muecke.de
Mayor :	Andreas Sommer (independent)
Location of the community of Mücke in the Vogelsbergkreis

Mücke is a municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse .

The place name comes from the Celtic vocabulary. It is derived from "much" or "mack", which means something like wet and swampy. The name Mücke was first mentioned in documents in connection with this region in 1482 in a tax list of the parish of Merlau. Before the regional reform of 1972 there was no place with the place name "Mücke", but a train station Mücke on the Gießen - Fulda line ( Vogelsbergbahn ) and a postal place name "Mücke".

geography

Geographical location

Mücke is located at an altitude of 200 to 350 meters in the northwestern Lower Vogelsberg on the upper reaches of the Ohm , a tributary of the Lahn , as well as the southern Ohm tributary Seenbach and its tributary Ilsbach . The district of Atzenhain is located on the Lumda, which flows west to the Lahn, on the so-called Lumda Plateau , which connects to the west and on which Bernsfeld is also located.

Neighboring communities

Mücke borders in the north on the town of Homberg (Ohm) , in the northeast on the municipality of Gemünden , in the east on the municipality Feldatal and the town of Ulrichstein , in the south on the town of Laubach ( district of Gießen ) and in the west on the city of Grünberg (district To water).

Community structure

The community of Mücke has existed in its current size since December 31, 1971 as an amalgamation of originally twelve independent communities. They now form the following districts:

• Atzenhain
• Bernsfeld
• Solutions
• Large oaks
• Höckersdorf
• Ilsdorf
• Merlau (seat of the municipal administration) (with the Kirschgarten settlement )
• Nieder-Ohmen (with hamlet Windhain )
• Ober-Ohmen
• Ruppertenrod
• Sellnrod (with hamlet Schmitten )
• Races

Flensungen and Merlau form the core community of Mücke. The Mücke district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up for the core community . In addition, there are separate local districts for each of the earlier municipalities, the boundaries of which follow the previous district boundaries.

With 2,800 inhabitants, Nieder-Ohmen is by far the largest district. The district of Ilsdorf is a specialty. Until the regional reform, part of today's district of Ilsdorf was in the old district of Alsfeld , while the other part of the village belonged to the district of Gießen as Solms-Ilsdorf. The reason was that Ilsdorf was formerly part of Upper Hesse in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , while Solms-Ilsdorf was owned by the Counts of Solms . This division is still visible today, as the place still has two cemeteries.

The geographical center of Hesse is located in today's Mücker district of Flensungen.

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  Atzenhain

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  Church in Atzenhain

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  Former waterworks

history

In September 1583, Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel and the new Archbishop of Mainz, Wolfgang von Dalberg , signed the Merlau Treaty in Merlau . In it they agreed on border conflicts that had long been smoldering between Kurmainz and the Landgraviate, whereby almost all of the remaining Mainz possessions in northern Hesse finally fell to the Landgraviate, but Hesse-Kassel gave up its claims in Eichsfeld .

Church building

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the voluntary merger of the communities Flensungen and Merlau with Kirschgarten took place on September 1, 1970 to form the new community Mücke. On October 1, 1971, the communities Höckersdorf, Ruppertenrod and Sellnrod were incorporated with Schmitten. On December 31, 1971, the municipalities of Atzenhain, Bernsfeld, Groß-Eichen, Ilsdorf and Wettsaasen were incorporated as well as the merger with the municipalities of Nieder-Ohmen and Ober-Ohmen to form the new municipality of Mücke.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016      A total of 31 seats SPD : 11 Greens : 3 CDU : 8 FW : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	34.4	11	37.6	12	40.6	15th	44.0	16
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	26.6	8th	27.0	8th	29.6	11	31.8	12
	FWG	Free community of voters	29.3	9	22.0	7th	22.0	8th	18.7	7th
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	9.6	3	13.4	4th	7.8	3	5.5	2
	total		100	31	100	31	100	37	100	37
	Voter turnout in%		55.2		50.6		48.2		56.7

A special political feature is the "Mücke Youth Parliament", which advocates the interests of children and young people. Its 35 members, aged between 14 and 21, are elected every two years. The youth parliament has the right to speak and propose to the youth, sports and culture committee of the municipal council.

mayor

In November 2011, incumbent Matthias Weitzel was confirmed in office with 62.9 percent of the votes. Weitzel, a graduate in administration, had been the mayor of Mücke since April 2000. As a result of a mayoral election on September 24, 2017, Andreas Sommer replaced the incumbent of the SPD Matthias Weitzel.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ludwig Funk (* around 1785 in Sellnrod, † March 1813 in Gießen), robber
• Ernst Lehr (born July 4, 1896 in Groß-Eichen, † March 24, 1945 in Berlin), physicist, materials researcher and mechanical engineer, named after the Lehr's damping measure
• Hilda Stern Cohen (* 1924 in Nieder-Ohmen, † 1997 in Baltimore ), religion teacher and poet, survivor of the Holocaust
• Harald Lesch (born July 28, 1960 in Gießen), astrophysicist and science journalist, grew up in Nieder-Ohmen.
• Tobias Reitz (born October 4, 1979 in Marburg), songwriter, grew up in Nieder-Ohmen.

Personalities related to the community

• Reinhard Schober (1906–1998), forest scientist, Nestor of forest growth research, 1945 to 1948 head of the Nieder-Ohmen forestry office
• Cora Stephan (* 1951), publicist, lives in Ilsdorf.

Economy and Infrastructure

Windhainer See in Nieder-Ohmen

Large wood meadow pond

The municipality of Mücke has very good transport links thanks to the Homberg (Ohm) motorway junction (to the A 5 ) and the federal highway 49 that runs through the municipality . A few years ago, the industrial area “Am Gottesrain” including a truck stop was therefore located at the motorway junction. There are stops of the Vogelsbergbahn in the districts of Merlau and Nieder-Ohmen .

The community has an indoor swimming pool with an attached sauna, which was closed for the time being on July 1st 2007. After extensive renovations, the swimming pool was reopened on May 1, 2010 by the Mücke indoor pool under the name "aquariohm".

There are also seven kindergartens, two primary schools and a comprehensive school without an upper level in the Nieder-Ohmen district and a social station with trained specialist staff.

There are village community centers in all parts of the village, which can be used for all types of events. There is also a diverse range of clubs.

Shops are guaranteed by numerous supermarkets and individual shops in the individual districts. The local association Mücke of the German Red Cross with rooms in Ruppertenrod and Merlau, the Christian seminar and conference center Flensunger Hof are special leisure facilities. On the Kratzberg in the Nieder-Ohmen district, the Luftsportgruppe Mücke e. V. has a model airfield and in the Atzenhain district there is the riding and driving association Mücke e. V. with riding arena and riding arena.

literature

• Literature about mosquitoes in the Hessian Bibliography
• Search for Mücke (Hessen) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : mosquito  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the community of Mücke
• Mücke, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Information on the community of Mücke. In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agentur GmbH , 2016. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Friedrich P. Kahlenberg: Consolidation and consolidation of the territorial state in the second half of the 16th century. The Merlau Treaty of 1582 between Hesse and Mainz. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 14. 1964, ISBN 3-921254-14-0
3. ↑ Amalgamation of the municipalities of Flensungen and Merlau in the Alsfeld district to form the new municipality of "Mücke" on August 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 35 , p. 1698 , point 1593 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 346 .
5. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
8. ^ Mücke: Summer new mayor. (No longer available online.) In: Oberhessische Zeitung online. September 24, 2017, archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; Retrieved September 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Peter Hagedorn: Technical Mechanics. Volume 3 Dynamics. Harri Deutsch Verlag, 3rd edition 2006, p. 190
10. ↑ Exile Archives: Stern Cohen, Hilda. Retrieved April 19, 2015 . 
11. ^ Mücke comprehensive school. Retrieved February 28, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Reit und Fahrverein Mücke e. V. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2018 ; accessed on February 28, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Bellof riding stable. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .